The Mountain Goats

The Mountain Goats are responsible for my all-time favourite record. The Sunset Tree is frontman John Darnielle’s angry and beautiful ode to his troubled adolescence. Since its release in 2005, Darnielle has released five brilliant LPs with themes from the Bible to mental illness.…

When sister site of the Yellow Bird Project, analog.am approached us and asked us if we’d like to pick our favourite albums for an FFS-themed vinyl shelf, it was a foregone conclusion. There is nothing Team FFS likes more than…

Transcendental Youth is an album about being young and reckless, about Frankie Lymon, about the Diaz Brothers, about running and jumping and leaving everything behind. An album about the fleetingness of youth that could, perhaps ironically, only have been written…

Exciting thing! FFS is failing to contain itself because THE MOUNTAIN GOATS are giving away a free single from their new album Transcendental Youth. It’s called ‘Cry For Judas’ and features SpaceBomb Records horns arranged by Matthew E. White. Listen…

I once watched a programme about the making of Michael Jackson’s Thriller. Actually, it was either a programme about Thriller or American Werewolf in London, though it doesn’t matter. Apparently, immediately after seeing American Werewolf In London, Michael Jackson picked…

The Mountain Goats have announced a special show at the Barbican in London next year. Frontman and genius John Darnielle will be joined by vocal quartet Anonymous 4, playing songs from his new work Transcendental Youth. The songs will be arranged…

Two kinds of people in this world: those who would gladly take a bullet for Diana Ross, and unfeeling cyborgs who feast on the innocent…
Look, I don’t know about you, but I’m going to mailorder me some fresh death metal…
So many films fall short because their screenwriters forget to include an evil cult leader character around whom the whole plot revolves…
Picking up a sweet potato, pretending to be answering the phone #hello #youllhavetospeakup #hello…

The Mountains Goats are nearly always my favourite band. And John Darnielle is my favourite ever songwriter bar none. He’s an intensely likable, principled, genius of a frontman. Yet the last few albums – though solidly good – haven’t blown…